Rivera-Batiz,Francisco L. (Author) and Santiago,Carlos E. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
198 p, Contents: Island paradox : Puerto Rico in the 1990s -- Population growth and demographic changes -- Migration between Puerto Rico and the United States -- The socioeconomic transformation : income, poverty, and education -- The labor market and the unemployment crisis -- Immigration and the population born outside Puerto Rico -- The Puerto Rican population in the United States -- Between two worlds : Puerto Rico looks toward the twenty-first century -- Appendix 1. Census data -- Appendix 2. Measuring migration to the United States -- Appendix 3. Population of Puerto Rico by municipio -- Appendix 4. Multivariate regression analysis of the growth and presence of Puerto Ricans in 25 U.S. SMSAs, 1980-90.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
304 p, Contents: pt. 1. Gender, work, and residence. Early-twentieth-century Caribbean women: migration and social networks in New York City / Irma Watkins-Owens ; Where New York's West Indians work / Suzanne Model ; West Indians and the residential landscape of New York / Kyle D. Crowder and Lucky M. Tedrow -- pt. 2. Transnational perspectives. Transnational social relations and the politics of national identity: an eastern Caribbean study / Linda Basch ; New York as a locality in a global family network / Karen Fog Olwig -- pt. 3. Race, ethnicity, and the second generation. "Black like who?" Afro-Caribbean immigrants, African Americans, and the politics of group identity / Reuel Rogers ; Growing up West Indian and African American: gender and class differences in the second generation / Mary C. Waters ; Experiencing success: structuring the perception of opportunities for West Indians / Vilna F. Bashi Bobb and Averil Y. Clarke ; Tweaking a monolith: the West Indian immigrant encounter with "Blackness" / Milton Vickerman ; Conclusion: Invisible no more? West Indian Americans in the social scientific imagination / Philip Kasinitz
